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April 2010
Today is going to be the best day of your life
This Month's Quote
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison
Things To Celebrate In April
-Grass Month
-Pets Are Wonderful Month
-Cancer Control Month
-Child Abuse Prevention Month
-International Guitar Month
-Keep America Beautiful Month
-Listening Awareness Month
-Mathematics Education Month
-Multicultural Communication Month
-National Anxiety Month
-National Garden Month
-National Home Improvement Month
-National Humor Month
-National Occupational Therapy Month
-National -Welding Month
-Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month
-Sports Eye Safety Month
-Philatelic Societies Month
-VD Awareness Month
-National Food Month
-Stress Awareness Month
-Alcohol Awareness Month
-International Amateur Radio Month
-Month of the Young Child
-National Sexually Transmitted Diseases Education and Awareness Month
-National Woodworking Month
-Thai Heritage Month
I will be back in Newport News on July 23rd & 24th at Cozzy’s on my 'Growing Old Disgracefully Tour'. I hope to see you there. I will also be speaking in Goldsboro, NC, Apex, NC and in Durham, NC in May.
How will we pay for health care reform? An increase in Medicare tax
Kelly Phillips Erb
As the House prepares for a vote on health care reform, the overwhelming question is how to pay the estimated $940 billion price tag on the plan. The obvious -- but not so politically popular -- answer is to raise taxes. Even better? Raise taxes so taxpayers don't notice it as much by including it in mandatory withholding.
That explains why the current proposal in the House under HR 3590 would add an increase in the form of payroll taxes. The bill, as it stands currently, would add .9% to the Medicare payroll tax to those individual taxpayers earning over $200,000 ($250,000 for married couples filing joint tax returns). That would bring the total tax rate to 2.35%.
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I showed this video in a past newsletter, but now I’m showing it again Click Here
I thought you may like to know who the richest people in the world are. Notice that number one is a Mexican named Slim. I somehow never thought anyone named Slim would ever be rich – except, of course, Slim Whitman and Slim Pickens.
The 10 Richest People in the World
No. 1: Carlos Slim Helu
$53.5 billion | Telecom | Mexico
No. 2: Bill Gates
$53 billion | Microsoft | U.S.
No. 3: Warren Buffett
$47 billion | Investments | U.S.
No. 4: Mukesh Ambani
$29 billion | Petrochemicals, Oil & Gas | India
No. 5: Lakshmi Mittal
$28.7 billion | Steel | India
No. 6: Lawrence Ellison
$28 billion | Oracle | U.S.
No. 7: Bernard Arnault
$27.5 billion | Luxury Goods | France
No. 8: Eike Batista
$27 billion | Mining, Oil | Brazil
No. 9: Amancio Ortega
$25 billion | Fashion Retail | Spain
No. 10: Karl Albrecht
$23.5 billion | Supermarkets | Germany
Karl Rove, the White House adviser whom George W. Bush called his political "architect," admits in a new memoir that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq severely damaged the Bush presidency -- and he suggests the war might not have occurred had Bush actually known the truth.
Of his own role, Rove writes that his biggest mistake was not pushing back against claims that the president had led the country into the Iraq war under false pretenses.
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Here is an interesting site. The World Clock Click Here
I’m giving you these websites so you will bookmark them and use them often. Please don’t discard them. You must get involved.
Here is your connection to your House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/
Here is your connection to Congress of the United States by State. Bookmark this web address:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Here are the e-mail addresses of all the Representative offices.
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml
A very important website to bookmark:
http://www.congress.org/
What Have We Given Up?
Here is what Americans have given up because of the recession. And to think, Congress is thinking about giving themselves another raise. They aren’t giving up anything and until we get more involved in politics it will keep getting worse. It’s our money and our lives they’re playing with. We need to be concerned with what they’re doing with it.
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Sacrifices |
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Eating out |
21 |
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Travel |
15 |
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Salon/beauty products |
13 |
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My own place/future home |
12 |
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Shopping for fun |
9 |
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Cable |
8 |
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Going out to the movies |
7 |
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Health or car insurance |
6 |
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Coffee out |
5 |
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Peace of mind/sense of security or freedom |
5 |
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Having a child |
3 |
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Hobbies (pets) |
3 |
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Spontaneity |
3 |
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Hopes for retirement |
2 |
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Private school for my child |
2 |
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Time with my family |
2 |
Now, let’s break away from politics and talk about health
Why Low-Fat Caused the Obesity Epidemic by Jonny Bowden
Eating is a way to deal with stress. Being overweight is stressful. This is an interesting story I found. Check it out.
When you have something as massive and scary as the obesity epidemic, it's hard to point the finger at one single element and say, "that's why it happened." But however you slice it, the low-fat movement played a part in the epidemic.
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